Quote of the Day

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Poor Polonius, he got his behind the arras.  Terrible place to get steel poisoning.

 

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Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better.
        -- Camus

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
        -- Heisenberg

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."

~The Problem of Pain

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
        -- Alfred North Whitehead

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favour of journalism
in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with
the ignorance of the community.
        -- Oscar Wilde
 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

-- V. I. Lenin.

[Wustmann 174]

While this isn't a quote, I think its worth a post:

 

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, 
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world. 
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing; 
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain. 
Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature. 
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires, 
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again; 
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual; 
To frozen clods ever the springs invisible law returns, 
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

 

Walt Whitman

[Munchiez 74]

"Life begins at Vr"

 

-Pilots

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

San Francisco has always been my favourite booing city.  I don't mean the
people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy.  When
they boo you, you know they mean *you*.  Music, that's what it is to me.
One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
        -- George Halas, professional football coach

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

The Analytical Engine weaves Algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard
loom weaves flowers and leaves.
        -- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, the first programmer {and Lord Byron's sister -ed}

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

    It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and
by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate
the habit of thinking about what we are doing.  The precise opposite is the
case.  Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them.  Operations of thought are
like cavalry charges in battle -- they are strictly limited in number, they
require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
        -- Alfred North Whitehead

 

{Is this not true today, more than ever before? -ed}

[Terring 6,476]

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

[jmsepe 2,040]

"There is no such thing as useless effort."

 

- Kagami Taiga (Kuroko no Basuke) 

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
        -- Samuel Goldwyn

[Terring 6,476]

[jmsepe 2,040]

"Laws aren't perfect, because humans who created laws aren't perfect. It's impossible to be perfect. However, the laws are evidence of the human's struggle to be righteous."

- Soichiro Yagami (Death Note)

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do
the work.
        -- John G. Pollard

[47ply 1,100]

you meet the best people when broke down!

because the jerks won't stop.

"unknown"

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out
of a divorce.
        -- Don Quinn

[Terring 6,476]

"Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labeled impractical or contrary to human nature: as if nuclear war were practical or as if there were only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made. We are surrounded by them."
 
Carl Sagan

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Mobilis in mobile {changing with change}

Quoted in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo's motto).

[jmsepe 2,040]

"Good is predicated on corruption and evil."

- Tsunenaga Tamaki (Deadman Wonderland)

[Larks2242 251]

 

We have lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.

 

 

- US Representative Sheila Jackson Lee on the enforcement act violating the US constitution 3/12/14

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

^ Not only do politicians have bad memory, they are also innumerate.  2014 - 1770 = 244.  Off by a century?  Oh well ...

 

We, on the other hand, have been developing some interesting unwritten rules (in the U.K.) since 1215, which turned into our Constitution Act of 1982.  The Americans chucked all this precedent and started over.  Not bad, but not great.

 

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Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes
you weep.
        -- Carl Sandburg

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
        -- Howard Aiken

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting:
a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
        -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

In this world there are only two tragedies.  One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
        -- Oscar Wilde

[jmsepe 2,040]

"Fear isn't necessarily bad. There are some things that can only be done by cowards."

- Shun Izuki (Kuroko no Basuke)

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

"Size matters not.  Look at me.  Judge me by my size, do you?  As well you should not."

 

  - Yoda

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea.
        -- Francis Bacon